Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!yjwu From: yjwu@unix.cie.rpi.edu (Yeun-Jung Wu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Hard drive format problems Message-ID: <202-%##@rpi.edu> Date: 27 Feb 91 05:08:13 GMT Organization: CIE, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 44 Nntp-Posting-Host: unix.cie.rpi.edu My system: 030 cube with Fujitsu M2249SA hard drive, OS 2.0 Problems: Fail to build hard drive; unable to format due to error in mode select command(reported by Formatter V1.2) Scenario: When I installed an external floppy drive to my system this afternoon, the SCSI terminator was not ON. After I straighten this out and successfully mount the floppy drive, the hard drive went crazy! (fsck report many problems. Superblocks are in trouble too.) I can still boot the system from hard drive but it is extremely slow. I then decided to build hard drive from OD using BuildDisk routine. This process terminated soon after a R/W error was encountered. I proceed to use sdform and Formatter, no luck! Any suggestions? Is the hard drive still alive or ....? Cost of repairment? Where can it be done? Thank you in advance! Problems: BuildDisk failure; unable to format due to error in mode select command (reported by Formatter 1.2) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com